Academic publisher, Pion, has an irrefutable reputation for publishing high quality journals in the fields of geography, physics and experimental psychology. The four geographical journals in the Pion stable - the Environment and Planning series - are committed to publishing innovative, interdisciplinary quality papers which tackle important questions in urban and regional research. This collection, edited by a stellar editorial team under the leadership of Stuart Elden and published by SAGE, draws from all four journals to showcase the best of the best on offer in urban research.

Volume One: Cities and Regions reflects a selection from the original journal that focuses on the fate of cities and regions and the concerns that plague them all across the world. The wide-ranging focus of the journal allows readers to draw on sources from many disciplines - geography, economics, environmental science, political science, demography, engineering, and regional science.

Volume Two: Planning and Design brings together the seminal articles published in the eponymous journal to promote research relating to spatial problems in the built environment and the spatial structure of cities and regions. These articles focus on urban design, architecture, and the nuts and bolts of planning issues.

Volume Three: Government and Policy presents the path-breaking papers that have been at the forefront of research on government issues and innovations in public policy. The journal encourages international perspectives and dialogue as illustrated by the varied selection in this volume.

Environment and Planning D is the pre-eminent journal for interdisciplinary debates around society and space involving, among others, philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, historians and political scientists. Volume Four: Society and Space picks out those articles that exemplify the discussion of the mutually constitutive relation between the social and the spatial.

Finally, Volume Five: Foundations, edited by series editor Stuart Elden, rounds off the set with a collection of articles that eloquently demonstrate the philosophically sophisticated and practically relevant heart of this remarkable family of journals.